What is the Scissor LaTeX editor?
Scissor LaTeX is a free LaTeX editor that runs in your browser. You write LaTeX and real typeset pages appear beside it as you type, with no compile button and no server. It is made for students and researchers, needs no account, and keeps your files on your device or in your own Google Drive.
- Free. The editor and every tool, with no subscription, no fee and no limit on how much you use them.
- No sign-up. Open the editor and start writing. No form to fill in, no email to confirm.
- No account needed. There is no account with us. Google Drive is optional and uses your Google sign-in.
- Private. Typesetting runs in your browser, so your documents never leave your device unless you save them to your own Google Drive.
What it does
- Typesets your document as you type, in Latin Modern fonts, with numbered sections, equations, figures and tables, footnotes, cross-references and a table of contents.
- Builds the bibliography from your .bib files in 17 citation styles, including APA, MLA, Chicago, IEEE, Harvard and Vancouver.
- Starts from 36 templates: Blank, Research paper, Article, Report, Thesis, Homework, Lab report, Letter, CV, Envelope, Postcard, Business card, Poster, Certificate, Flyer, and 21 look-alike conference formats in the style of IEEE, CVPR, ACM sigconf, Springer LNCS, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ACL and the arxiv.sty preprint style, which are not official and not affiliated with or endorsed by these organisations.
- Exports a PDF, a .zip of the whole project, the main .tex file, a web page (HTML with MathML) or Markdown.
- Saves the whole project to your own Google Drive, or keeps it in your browser.
- Has comments, an outline, a symbol palette, a citation picker, and find and replace.
- Works offline after your first visit (open it online once after each update), and can be installed from the browser as an app.
- Is available in English, Deutsch, Español, Português, Français, Italiano, Nederlands, Polski, Ελληνικά, Türkçe, Русский, Українська, العربية, فارسی, اردو, کوردی (سۆرانی), Kurdî (Kurmancî), עברית, हिन्दी, मराठी, বাংলা, Bahasa Indonesia, Bahasa Melayu, Filipino, Tiếng Việt, ไทย, 日本語, 한국어, 简体中文, and 繁體中文.
AI that runs on your device AI
The editor's optional AI rephrases, shortens and fixes the grammar of your text, translates a selection into English, German or Spanish, explains typesetting problems with a fix, and creates equations, tables, charts, diagrams, sections, abstracts and BibTeX entries. Every result is checked with the engines that typeset your document, and nothing changes until you accept it.
- It runs in your browser after a one-time model download of 0.45 to 1.1 GB. Your documents never leave your device.
- It works offline once the model is downloaded. No account, and no AI service in between.
- Small models make mistakes: every result is marked as written by AI and waits for you to check it.
It needs a browser with WebGPU (Chrome or Edge, Safari 26 or later, or Firefox on Windows or an Apple Silicon Mac) and 2 to 3 GB of graphics memory, depending on the model. iPhone and iPad run the smallest model. The editor checks your device before any download.
Who it is for
Students writing homework, lab reports and a thesis, and researchers drafting papers, who want to see the pages while they write, without an account or an upload to our servers. If you write with co-authors at the same time, or need every TeX package, a cloud service such as Overleaf suits you better. How Scissor LaTeX compares with Overleaf
Where your files are
Projects are stored in your browser on this device. The typesetter runs in your browser tab, so your text is never sent to a server of ours. When you save to Google Drive, your browser talks to Google directly, and Scissor LaTeX can see only the files it created or you opened with it. How it works
What it does not do
Scissor LaTeX lays out pages with its own engine built on Typst, not with TeX. It covers the LaTeX that papers, reports and theses usually use, but not every package or document class, and it has no real-time co-editing.